OOM PAUL'S PEOPLE
A NARRATIVE OF THE BRITISH-BOER TROUBLES
IN SOUTH AFRICA, WITH A HISTORY
OF THE BOERS, THE COUNTRY,
AND ITS INSTITUTIONS
BY HOWARD C. HILLEGAS
ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS
AND A MAP OF SOUTH AFRICA
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1900
COPYRIGHT, 1899,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
PREFACE
American enterprises in South Africa, andespecially in the Transvaal, have assumed suchlarge proportions in the last five years that theaffairs of the country and the people are steadilygaining in interest the land over. As almost allthe interest is centred in the Transvaal and theBoers, an unprejudiced opinion of the countryand its people may serve to correct some of themany popular misconceptions concerning them.The Boers constitute a nation, and are deservingof the consideration which many writingsconcerning them fail to display. They have theirfailings, as many a more powerful nation has,but they also have noble traits. In these pagesan effort has been made to describe the Boersas they impressed themselves upon my mindwhile I associated with them in the farmhouseson the veldt, in the drawing-rooms in the cities,in the chambers of the Government House, andin the mansion of the Executive.
The alleged grievances of the Uitlanders areso complex and multitudinous that a mereenumeration of them would necessitate a separatevolume, and consequently they are not touchedupon except collectively. As a layman, it is notwithin my province to discuss the diplomaticfeatures of South African affairs, and I haveshown only the moral aspect as it was unfoldedto an American whose pride in the Anglo-Saxonrace causes him to wish that t BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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